Sentences with phrase «by madmen with»

An unapologetically absurd thriller, Grand Piano follows Elijah Wood's Tom Selznick, a musician returning to the stage after a lengthy absence, as he's forced to play a difficult concerto by a madman with a sniper rifle.

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With all the wild and bizarre beliefs that only could be created by a delusional madman.

When a religious madman prophesies that the oldest brother of the Agwu family will be killed by one of his brothers and the prophecy eventually comes true, the family must come to grips with this tragedy and struggle toward healing and redemption.

Our American democracy has been commandeered by a madman who worked with foreign enemies to steal an election.

The characters are incredibly archetypal; a madman megalomaniacal baddie and a downtrodden cop who deals with the death of his son by investing himself completely in his work (at the expense of tending to his family).

Called on by his country to unite with acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), to chase down stolen nuclear weapons, the duo commandeers all manner of military hardware and personnel in pursuit of a madman who, at the end of the day, is firmly convinced that he is doing the right thing by detonating the one remaining rogue bomb in his backpack near the United Nations building in New York City.

By all accounts, Emma Donoghue's novel, written from the perspective of a 5 - year - old boy who's spent his entire life locked up with his mother in a madman's garden shed, is a terrific, harrowing read.

Who: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve and Brendan Gleeson What: When a madman begins committing murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's stories, a young detective joins forces with Poe to stop any more from coming true.

When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Poe's darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe in a quest to get inside the killer's mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe's brutal stories a blood chilling reality.

The sleuthing by these intrepid reporters contains all of the contrivances of a Scooby - Doo mystery, complete with madman - in - disguise climax.

They include the pre-game ritual of Madman (Andrew Bryniarski), more of the games, multiple post-game press conferences, more of James Woods and Matthew Modine's team physician and trainer working and clashing, Taylor's character fingering a woman while in polite conversation at a lavish party, a strained meeting between Tony and his estranged son (played by an otherwise absent Jim Caviezel), Bill Bellamy's character begging for some pharmaceutical assistance, and some post-game closure of Tony meeting with Cap and Christina.

The military only has six hours to prevent the crazy madman from following through with his next threat, namely, to slaughter millions by unleashing a dirty bomb downtown.

«We wanted 20,000 Lums Under the Sea to have a very distinctive theme to it that fit with the new focus for the world: avoiding detection through stealth, slowly descending into an underwater base and eventually destroying a giant mechanical creature created by a madman,» said level designer Chris McEntee.

But somehow, the Danish madman repackaged those elements into something that felt incredibly fresh, with a brace of fine performances (Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks proving particular highlights), grotesque violence and a fairy - tale romanticism melding with one of the most striking looking and sounding movies of the last few years, one that's set to be ripped off by filmmakers and commercials for years to come.

Darren Aronofsky's preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning — a curious mix of deep - think and makeup effects that goes back to his black - and - white debut feature, Pi — grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self - destruction, its only prophets being madmen.

In Speed, the blockbuster hit about a Los Angeles commuter bus wired by a madman to explode if it slows below 50 miles per hour, screenwriter Graham Yost and director Jan De Bont have turned a brain - dead premise into a roller - coaster ride of a movie, with inventive twists, assured pacing, and dazzling visuals.

Frank Einstein, better known by his superheroic guise Madman, is ready to celebrate Free Comic Book Day 2018 with the latest in the Free Comic Book Day Commemorative Artist T - Shirt series!

The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd H.G. Wells gets the teen treatment with this entertaining adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was vandalized with lightly scrawled graffiti that reads in Norwegian, «Could only have been painted by a madman.»

Following the various angles pitched up by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is like playing chess with a madman: it's exciting, but you have absolutely no idea what move he'll come up with next.